2011 Festival
Dublin Book Festival comes to a close…
The festival may have ended but the imprint that it leaves on the city of Dublin will last for a long time. From politics to writing for Young Adults, personal finances and entrepreneurship to children’s storytellers, poetry to crime writing, the festival offered a varied, practical and exciting programme which was enjoyed by many. There [...]
Nighthawks at the Dublin Book Festival
An explosive mixture of comedy, readings, acoustic sessions, traditional harp and acting, Nighthawks provided an excellent close to day four of the Dublin Book Festival. With seven original, exciting and astoundingly talented acts, this event had the audience mesmerised one minute and roaring in the aisles with laughter the next. Foil, Arms and Hog blasted [...]
Your Career and Personal Finances – Getting Back on Track
Yet another high calibre panel presented themselves at the Dublin Book Festival to share their expertise as Colm Rapple, Brendan Foley and Jane Downes discussed how to get back on track with your career and personal finances. The perfect accompaniment to the positive notes addressed in the earlier entrepreneurial discussion, Colm, Brendan and Jane painted [...]
Lunchtime readings at City Hall
If you’re looking for something to do over the weekend, or during your lunch hour (yes, some people are unlucky enough to work weekends), then I’d recommend popping down to City Hall if it’s within reach for some storytelling – especially if today’s reading with Ralph Riegel, Jenny McCudden, Yvonne Joye, and Seamus Cashman is [...]
Congratulations to Michael Scott and the finalists of the O’Brien Press children’s competition
There was a fabulously celebratory air as several youngsters took to the stage to collect their awards for the O’Brien Press children’s competition. The task: to design a book cover for Michael Scott’s latest book (launched during this session), October Moon. This competition has been running for three years and 2011 saw the most explosive [...]
Stepping towards a brighter future…
A heated, feisty and compelling debate about the future of Ireland graced the stage of The Cube on day two of the Dublin Book Festival, led by an excellent panel of journalists and economists; Vincent Browne, Shane Coleman, Justine McCarthy, Stephen Kinsella and Ken Foxe. The evening was a perfectly balanced mix, beginning with panel-led [...]
Opening night of Dublin Book Festival
It was a packed venue last night for the first Dublin Book Festival event as Dermot Bolger, Anthony Cronin and Eileen Battersby discussed the theme of Dublin’s place in literature – an important topic in light of Dublin’s literary heritage and recent UNESCO City of Literature award. Through the eyes of Cronin and Bolger, we [...]
Robert Gogan in The Good Room – Saturday 5th March
Dublin Book Festival Guest Blog by Robert Gogan: Robert Gogan is the compiler, designer and publisher of four volumes of Irish ballads - 130 Great Irish Ballads / 50 Great Irish Fighting Songs / 50 Great Irish Drinking Songs & 50 Great Irish Love Songs - and he’ll entertain you with the histories and stories [...]
‘The present past of my poems’ by Maighread Medbh
Dublin Book Festival Guest Blog by Maighread Medbh: Dublin seemed the virgin territory, the to-be-explored. I didn’t have a clear view of what I wanted – just out and independence. And, perhaps, to live more fully in the core of myself. Dublin offered me those things and sometimes I lived them, often their illusory doppelgangers. [...]
Crime Fiction – as Gaeilge by Anna Heussaff
Dublin Book Festival Guest Blog by Anna Heussaff: In the late 1800s, the demise of the murder mystery was predicted by a critic of the Sherlock Holmes stories. ‘Considering the difficulty of hitting on any fancies that are decently fresh,’ said he, ‘surely this sensational business must come to a close.’* Over a century later, [...]
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